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...leaders a belief that their moment had arrived and that they'd better seize it. Hugo Chavez Frias, 46, the fiery nationalist President of Venezuela, saw an opportunity in the booming economies of the developed world to turn a moribund cartel back into a global economic powerhouse. Against the backdrop of soaring energy prices, which have tripled during the past two years to a high two weeks ago of $36 per bbl., Chavez took center stage in Caracas last week to proclaim OPEC's "resurrection...
Though just outside the city that pioneered the concept of water and sewer systems in early America, Boston Harbor lay nearly biologically dead in the mid-1980s. Besides the unsightliness of the harbor that formed the backdrop of Bush's political advertisement, Boston Harbor experienced large-scale and wide-ranging ecological problems...
...then-Vice President George Bush aired a campaign advertisement set against the backdrop of the polluted and frothing seawater of Boston Harbor, calling it the "filthiest harbor in America...
...Standing in front of a backdrop of blue-uniformed workers Thursday at a food packaging plant, Bush delivered his speech and took questions in his shirtsleeves. It was chilly in Wisconsin but Bush was trying to look a little more informal and accessible. He used to gig Al Gore for fishing around too much in the wardrobe closet, but as he tweaked his own uniform he was also copying Gore in other ways, by showing himself to be a tireless advocate for the working man. Describing the tax advantages that his plan would bring to the Tank family sitting...
David Mamet's The Water Engine, set against the backdrop of the 1933-1934 Chicago World's Fair, depicts one man's struggle to patent his invention and reveal it to the world. The struggle belongs to Charles Lang, who, along with his secret invention (an engine that runs on water), is exploited by corporate mongers whose smooth promises conceal the destructive forces of a society hungry for cash and willing to do anything to get it. The voice of the chain letter throughout the play keeps the audience guessing as to the implications of people, fate and science...